Me and a group of friends spent months building a city on our minecraft server. After we started having server errors we decided that it would be best to completely reinstall minecraft. So we backed up the world folder to our computer and did a complete server reinstall for minecraft.
After moving the world folder back and loading it on our server, we are now spawned in the middle of nowhere and have not been able to find the city we've spent months building. It's an infinite world and we've spent about 2 weeks looking for the city we've built but have not been able to find it.
Are we screwed? or is there another way to locate a city that we have built? I don't see why simply moving our world folder back into the MC directory and pointing to it in the server.properties file wouldn't work. Our old server was running Mc 1.8.3 with spigot. And this one runs 1.8.8 with spigot.
Best Answer
There is a way to find the city without using external programs: Open your world folder, and then the region folder. In there, you should see files with names like this:
r.<x>.<z>.mcamultiply the x and z value by 32, and you will get the chunkcoordinates of the chunks inside that file. Join the running server and press F3. There should be a line sayingCompare these values to the region file coordinates you found in your world folder. The region files should be roughly around 2 spots: The place where you are now, and the place, where you were before the reset.